Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies

“8 HISTORIAS SOBRE MI HIPOACUSIA” Charo Mato / Argentina, Uruguay / 2021 / 86 min https://pragda.com/film/8-stories-about-my-hearing-loss Spanish with English subtitles Comments by prof. Marcelo Nogueira, Spanish & Portuguese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Charo Mato’s autobiographical documentary is a poignant exploration of her life journey. Diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural progressive hearing loss in first […]

Red Emma's Bookstore (3128 Greenmount Ave) The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Jorell Meléndez Badillo (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) for a conversation about his book PUERTO RICO: A NATIONAL HISTORY (Princeton University Press, 2024) Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped […]

Mergenthaler 366 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Department of Political Science present Indigenous Sovereignty and The Construction Of Citizenship During Peru's Post-independence Period A lecture by Dr. Arturo Chang, Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto in conversation with Alonso […]

“BAD HOMBRES” Stef Biemans / Netherlands / 2020 / 54 min https://pragda.com/film/bad-hombres Spanish with English subtitles Bad Hombres explores the most heavily used migration route on Earth. Dutch journalist Stef Biemans travels between Guatemala and the U.S. during the first months of the Trump Administration, to see what the so-called ‘bad hombres’ hope to find in […]

Mergenthaler 526 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Arrighi Center for Global Studies, are pleased to present Margarita Fajardo (History, Sarah Lawrence College), for a conversation on THE WORLD THAT LATIN AMERICA CREATED: THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA IN THE DEVELOPMENT ERA (Harvard University Press, 2022) How […]

The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Verónica Ríos Saavedra, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Gendered Extractivism in Filmic Representations of the Amazon" Alfredo Walls, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. "Memory and Desire: Metamorphosis of Queer Bodies in Two Poems by Luis Felipe […]

Hodson Hall 110 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies presents a panel discussion bringing together speakers who are working on the ground with migrants and refugees. They will discuss their experiences, comparing the situations at the U.S.-Mexico border and in Baltimore. They will also speak to what effects the new presidential administration […]

Miguel Farías, one of Latin America’s most innovative composers, will visit the Peabody Institute this February. A Chilean-Venezuelan native, Farías is renowned for his bold musical voice and ability to merge traditional and contemporary influences. His works are being performed by leading orchestras in the United States such as Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Kansas […]

Gilman 308 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to announce this book presentation Computational Humanities. Edited by Jessica Marie Johnson, David Mimno and Lauren Tilton. Join Black World on February 11th from 12- 2:00 PM EST to celebrate the publication of Computational Humanities (2024), the first volume to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities. For […]

The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Hans Frex, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Black Pacific: Revolutionary Suicide and Maternal Struggle in the Afro-Colombian Diaspora in Antofagasta" Ignacio Veraguas, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. "The desengaño of the Torrid Zone: Southern Habitability and […]

Gilman 479 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present this lecture by Sarah Finley (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Christopher Newport University): Listening to renderings of Black voices from urban New Spain, Dr. Finley will highlight the racialized politics and audio-racial discourses that framed the region’s archive. This […]

Gilman 479 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is pleased to present this lecture by Renee Hudson (Department of English, Chapman University). Drawing from her book, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments […]